I guess the people in charge haven’t read the rifters trilogy. I don’t trust any of ‘em, but at least we already have a pandemic; they probably can’t make it worse.
What happened to biodomes? Did the Pauly Shore movie ruin the concept?
We never got them working properly here on earth, which isn’t great news for a self sustainable moon or Mars colony.
Wasn’t that mostly due to mismanagement rather than any technological hurdle?
Kinda both. It was a useful experiment, but bacterial contamination doomed the thing from day one.
Also the trees got too weak with no wind or something
He made too much trouble in that bubble
i did that in vashj’ir in wow in 2010
Space is hard to get to, no gravity, and there’s radiation.
Underwater has high pressure, corrosion, and no natural lighting.
When you get an air leak in space, you find the hole and patch it. When you get a leak underwater, you don’t have to worry about it at all because it takes care of things in microseconds.
Just like with space you can build in redundancies though. You don’t have to be all Titan about it.
So Bioshock….
Well, it’s just scientists, so Sealab 2021.
Eventually, the techbros will make a cheaper version and add the pod to the end though.
Pod 6? I hate Pod 6!
Total suck pod.
as long as they don’t use a logitech controller i’m sure it’ll be fine
The logitech controller was fine, although it was questionable to be using a bluetooth one.
The F710 isn’t Bluetooth; it uses its own dongle.
Still.
I now wonder if part of the reason that all happened is because the controller battery died, so they couldn’t ascend.
Nah, the shell cracked, pretty much instant death. Dodgy tech works until it doesn’t, only the first critical failure matters
Well duh? I’ve read the reports. I mean that maybe they went too deep because the controller died. Eg, dude holds button that tells controllers to go deeper. Controller dies… Sub just takes last input and keeps going deeper until it hits the catastrophic depth.
Guy was an idiot for sure, I just wonder if the controller played ANY role at all.
Would you kindly…
Subnautica vibes.
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If only they explained their reasoning somewhere… all these headlines are so inconsiderate.
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What part of the opening rationale was incomprehensible?
“With current diving at 150 to 200 meters, you can only get 10 minutes of work completed, followed by 6 hours of decompression. With our underwater habitats we’ll be able to do seven years’ worth of work in 30 days with shorter decompression time. More than 90 percent of the ocean’s biodiversity lives within 200 meters’ depth and at the shorelines, and we only know about 20 percent of it.”
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Humans are the ones tooling and retooling these units for specific purposes, which can be done far more efficiently in situ in an underwater habitation. Along with any other human activities that will be occurring, such as immediate study in a dedicated lab facility.
If your looking for me
You better check under the sea
Cause that is where you’ll find me
Underneath the
Sealab, Underneath the water
Sealab, At the bottom of the sea.
About 4 years late, but whatever.
The jerks in Pod Six made you late, didn’t they?
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Why do I apparently have the entire theme song still in my brain meats? I only thought the show was ok during its original Adult Swim run, and it wasn’t even a brain wormie theme. I apparently need to go back and watch it again to see what’s up.
I am probably a minority, but I think it’s the funniest of the early Adult Swim originals.
The feng shui episode was the best one.
Well I am going to put it to the test and see if it’s available anywhere to binge watch. I remember it being perfectly fine and enjoyable, but never one I was intentionally waiting to watch. Time to find out if it holds up or even gets better with age.
Watch our oceans die before your very eyes!
This is for the oil and gas industry.
Ain’t nobody paying for an underwater habitat for researchers when all researchers do at depth is take photos and samples, which can be done by an ROV.
Oil and Gas OTOH need deep see divers to do welding and other maintenance all the time.
And in 2026, deep divers will be searching for datapads to find out what went wrong.
Maybe the pact holds longer in those silos 😆
“So we found these slugs that produce magic stem cells…”
Add in “But harvesting it angered the psychic primordial shark that we worship as a god.” And you’ve got the rough plot for the water planet from Kotor 1.
So basically Rapture
Ocean horizons 2.0 I hope.
Elon is probably the only superhero who could actually go there an show them all! Definitely not just any rich guy could do it.
I’ve been playing lots of Oxygen not Included, so… Yeah good luck, what could go wrong?
i legit thought this was some wacky futurist article from 10 years ago that someone posted for fun
